HERE<\/a> is my LA Weekly story on the ups and downs of the local arthouse scene.<\/p>\nI spoke to a number of people, including filmmaker Gregg Araki, dilm critic Bob Koehler and company president Greg Laemmle. One source I didn’t have room to include was\u00a0Rose Kuo, now executive director of Film Society of Lincoln Center, who haunted the theater constantly when she moved to L.A. “<\/span>I lived near Franklin Avenue \u00a0and Gardner so I went to movies there every weekend, sometimes seeing 2 or 3 movies in one day.”\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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<\/a>The good news — or some variation of that — is that Sundance Cinemas will renovate and reopen the space, and the Laemmle family just opened a seven-screen arthouse on Lankershim in North Hollywood.<\/p>\n